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Zach Hyman had 2 goals and an assist, Connor McDavid besides had a two-goal outing and the Edmonton Oilers took a 2-1 pb successful their Western Conference Final bid with a 6-1 triumph implicit the Dallas Stars connected Sunday.
Goalie Stuart Skinner stopped 33 Dallas shots; Oilers up 2-1 successful the series
Shane Jones · The Canadian Press
· Posted: May 25, 2025 6:12 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago
The Edmonton Oilers weren't lacking successful guys who made an interaction connected Sunday.
Zach Hyman had 2 goals and an assist, Connor McDavid besides had a two-goal outing, and the Oilers took a 2-1 pb successful their Western Conference last bid with a 6-1 triumph implicit the Dallas Stars.
Evan Bouchard, with a extremity and an assist, and John Klingberg besides scored for the Oilers, with Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Evander Kane each chipping successful with 3 assists.
"You person to person ascendant nights, you person to person nights wherever possibly your goalie is amended than theirs," McDavid said. "You person to find ways to triumph antithetic games antithetic ways and we did again tonight."
Stuart Skinner was awesome erstwhile again successful the Edmonton net, making 33 saves to amended to 4-4 successful post-season play, his archetypal triumph successful the playoffs that wasn't a shutout.
"For him, to beryllium capable to conflict backmost the mode helium has is conscionable truly impressive," said Hyman. "I deliberation a batch of radical were counting him retired and helium came successful and has been phenomenal and a large crushed we're up 2-1."
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Skinner, who struggled to commencement the post-season and was replaced by backup Calvin Pickard, lone to beryllium brought backmost successful erstwhile Pickard was injured, admits helium is pleased with however helium has tackled the galore challenges.
"I'm arrogant of myself for going done everything I've had to spell done personally," said Skinner, who has lone allowed 1 extremity successful his past 2 outings. "It takes a batch of courageousness to support connected getting up. Especially arsenic a goaltender. If you speech to immoderate goalie, that's conscionable the game. You get deed down truthful galore times and you've got to support connected getting up."
The Oilers person won 2 consecutive since their third-period illness successful Game 1 successful Dallas.
Jason Robertson replied for the Stars, who are hoping to debar being knocked retired successful the 3rd circular by the Oilers for a 2nd consecutive season.
The Stars were without guardant Roope Hintz, who was tied for 2nd successful squad scoring entering the game. Hintz had to beryllium helped disconnected the crystal precocious successful the 3rd play of Game 2 aft helium was slashed connected the apical of the near ft by Oilers defenceman Darnell Nurse.
"Tonight, we're without our No. 1 centre, we're connected the roadworthy present successful a pugnacious environment. I thought we played a truly bully hockey crippled for a bully agelong of that game," said Stars caput manager Pete DeBoer.
"So, there's thing to get affectional oregon upset about, I deliberation you person to beryllium realistic with your group. I liked our vie tonight, I liked a batch of parts of our crippled and we've got to physique connected that and hopefully get Roope Hintz backmost and get backmost successful this series.
"We don't person to triumph 3 games successful this building, we've conscionable got to triumph 1 and triumph our location games."
Jake Oettinger stopped 18 shots successful Dallas' net, falling to 5-10 successful his vocation successful West last contests.
Edmonton started the scoring with six minutes remaining successful the opening play arsenic a Bouchard weaponry from the constituent made its mode done postulation for his sixth of the playoffs.
The Oilers past made it 2-0 conscionable 36 seconds aboriginal connected a 3-on-1 accidental arsenic Nugent-Hopkins made a instrumentality walk to McDavid, who snuck his 4th of the post-season past Oettinger.
Nugent-Hopkins present has multi-point efforts successful each crippled of the series.
Dallas has been outscored 9-0 successful the archetypal play connected the roadworthy successful this year's playoffs.
The Stars were the stronger squad successful the 2nd play and were yet rewarded with 4:25 remaining successful the mediate frame. Lian Bichsel's changeable deed Robertson and caromed past Skinner for his archetypal of the playoffs.
Edmonton restored its two-goal pb with 19 seconds near successful the 2nd arsenic McDavid picked the apical country to people his 2nd of the game.
Dallas outshot Edmonton 21-8 successful the second.
The Oilers went up 4-1 conscionable 3:25 into the 3rd aft the Stars came adjacent connected a mates of scrambly plays successful beforehand of the Edmonton net. Nugent-Hopkins sent a agelong long walk to Hyman for a breakaway and helium rifled successful his fourth.
Edmonton scored yet again with 8 minutes to play arsenic Kane chipped a walk implicit a defender to Hyman and helium deflected location his 2nd of the game.
The Oilers added a power-play extremity connected Klingberg's archetypal with 2:20 to play.
Game 4 takes spot connected Tuesday successful Edmonton.
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